GDT: WCF - Game #4 Oilers host Avs 6pm MT: Just Win One Game, Then Work on the Next

[Ginger Papa]

Although the Boys are down 0-3, this has been a great Season for a Team that was headed for a mid-high Draft Pick when Woodcroft took over. This group has given us a lot to cheer for and I hope they can do so again tonight.​

I know Kane nor Kadri are not playing, but I needed to use Dailyfaceoff.com's Lineups.

LW	C	RW
EVANDER KANE	CONNOR MCDAVID	LEON DRAISAITL
ZACH HYMAN	RYAN NUGENT-HOPKINS	KAILER YAMAMOTO
WARREN FOEGELE	RYAN MCLEOD	JESSE PULJUJARVI
JOSH ARCHIBALD	DEREK RYAN	ZACK KASSIAN

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DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
DARNELL NURSE	CODY CECI
DUNCAN KEITH	EVAN BOUCHARD
BRETT KULAK	TYSON BARRIE

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GOALIES
MIKE SMITH	MIKKO KOSKINEN

and some memes for good luck and health

ps. Pouring one out for our friend @5 min 4 ftg

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[Canovin]

Watch we win because of Holloway

 

[duul]

Watch we win because of Holloway

Is he confirmed playing?

 

[Mr Positive]

I like the messenging from the team. Just look at this one game. Even if we lose this series, winning a couple games is worthwhile. Plus you never know.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

sure be nice to hear La Bamba one last time before the season ends

if not, it's been an amazing season with some memories I'll never forget

Let's Go Oilers!

 

[Canovin]

Is he confirmed playing?

Not yet. I think he draws in tho just for the experience.

 

[McBigYak]

I'd imagine the fact they beat Calgary 4 straight is in a lot of the team's heads right now. These guys are not wired like fans. They truly believe they can win the series.

1 game at a time. Before you know it, maybe we're back to Edmonton for game 6. There's literally 0 pressure on the Oilers right now.

If I were Woodcroft though, I'd be going Koskinen and inserting Niemelainen and Holloway

 

[iCanada]

Truly vicious and dangerous check causing Kadri a life changing.... *checks notes* broken thumb.

MATTY'S SNAPSHOTS: Kane suspended and Kadri may have broken thumb

The Edmonton Oilers winger Kane was suspended for the game after shoving Kadri into the end boards a minute into Game 3

edmontonsun.com

 

[BlackDogg]

I'd imagine the fact they beat Calgary 4 straight is in a lot of the team's heads right now. These guys are not wired like fans. They truly believe they can win the series.

1 game at a time. Before you know it, maybe we're back to Edmonton for game 6. There's literally 0 pressure on the Oilers right now.

If I were Woodcroft though, I'd be going Koskinen and inserting Niemelainen and Holloway

Its easier to be the player, because you have an element of control. Fans are left to the wolves lol.

I truly believe players, even when the opposition scores, don't worry as much as fans do. As they feel confident they can get it back. Just doesn't always work. lol

 

[McBigYak]

Truly vicious and dangerous check causing Kadri a life changing.... *checks notes* broken thumb.

MATTY'S SNAPSHOTS: Kane suspended and Kadri may have broken thumb

The Edmonton Oilers winger Kane was suspended for the game after shoving Kadri into the end boards a minute into Game 3

edmontonsun.com

It's a really bad look for Oilers fans to be defending this hit or downplaying the severity of it. You can break a guy's neck doing that dumb shit. Just because the result isn't as severe doesn't change how stupid of a play it was.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Truly vicious and dangerous check causing Kadri a life changing.... *checks notes* broken thumb.

MATTY'S SNAPSHOTS: Kane suspended and Kadri may have broken thumb

The Edmonton Oilers winger Kane was suspended for the game after shoving Kadri into the end boards a minute into Game 3

edmontonsun.com

Remember when he was writhing on ice and kicking his skates up and down as if he were critically injured. I do.

Its certainly the aspect of AV's and Lightning hockey that I dislike. How much the players play act and milk penalties.

 

[iCanada]

I'd imagine the fact they beat Calgary 4 straight is in a lot of the team's heads right now. These guys are not wired like fans. They truly believe they can win the series.

1 game at a time. Before you know it, maybe we're back to Edmonton for game 6. There's literally 0 pressure on the Oilers right now.

If I were Woodcroft though, I'd be going Koskinen and inserting Niemelainen and Holloway

I truly believe they can win the series, too.

Two of the 3 games were 1 goal games with Avs getting the bounces and the whistles. We probably won't get the whistle, but with some bounces and cleaning up a few of our mistakes we can certainly get a win. If we can get one, we can get two, three, four.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Its easier to be the player, because you have an element of control. Fans are left to the wolves lol.

I truly believe players, even when the opposition scores, don't worry as much as fans do. As they feel confident they can get it back. Just doesn't always work. lol

I think all season this club has been too confident they can get goals back. Its a double edged sword. One can call it resilience, and never giving up, that kind of thing. But it runs counter to starting games good, taking initiatives and leads that Woodcroft wanted to employ. Instead the Oil continue to do it their way. "Feel their way into games" because they think they can. I'd rather be seeing a team that really thought it was important to jump out in games and lead.

Similarly this club is so confident in itself that they drop first games of series every time. When's the last time they even won a game 1. I can't remember.

 

[nabob]

It's a really bad look for Oilers fans to be defending this hit or downplaying the severity of it. You can break a guy's neck doing that dumb shit. Just because the result isn't as severe doesn't change how stupid of a play it was.

Not many guys get a broken neck going into the boards sideways...

 

[Canovin]

Load management by Kadri

 

[McBigYak]

Not many guys get a broken neck going into the boards sideways...

Again, the RESULT of the hit doesn't downplay the severity of the action. Change the angle a few degrees and he could blow out his shoulder, break his neck etc. It's a dumb, dumb, dumb play, and Oiler fans trying to drum up excuses to downplay it is kind of embarrassing.

 

[Drivesaitl]

It's a really bad look for Oilers fans to be defending this hit or downplaying the severity of it. You can break a guy's neck doing that dumb shit. Just because the result isn't as severe doesn't change how stupid of a play it was.

Nah. Kadri turned right into the boards, if you watch the replay enough you see that Kadri even embellishes the hit and propels himself somewhat to make it look like a mroe violent hit. Kadri figured he could milk the major and still be OK. he double crossed himself on it. I mean its been his M.O to engage in dirty plays and then try to milk calls whenever he gets tagged. The NHL seemingly gives no attention to the boy cries wolf syndrome, or they love it. I'm thinking the latter.

Wheres your comment like this anytime the Oilers are getting slew footed into the boards or the stick between the legs to send a guy head first into the boards. Its often the harder to see infractions that are the dirtiest of plays.

The Kane hit on Kadri was not entirely different than the Lucic hit on Smith.

 

[iCanada]

It's a really bad look for Oilers fans to be defending this hit or downplaying the severity of it. You can break a guy's neck doing that dumb shit. Just because the result isn't as severe doesn't change how stupid of a play it was.

When did I defend the hit? I'm not a fan of it.

That being said... I'm frustrated. Kadri milked it for all it was worth and then some. And now we see he didn't even really sustain an injury, he's got a broken thumb. If Draisaitl or McDavid sustained the same injury they are still playing.

Then you add the league into the mix; that hit happens all day every day. Do I like it? No. But I can find you 10 examples or more from the past year that no one even looked twice at, one of them in this very playoffs. Even when other teams seem to cross the line, they don't get in trouble for often specious reasoning; "oh he let up, oh the injury was minor, oh imagine what would have happened if he tried to hurt him." Yet somehow none of this garbage applies to the Oilers.

Trouba has concussed 4 guys this playoffs with hits through the head to not even a minor penalty. But that ill advised shove is a suspension? Jensen had to literally crawl to his bench and couldn't remember his own name.

But f*** Kane and the Oilers, Kadri has a thumb booboo.

 

[McBigYak]

Nah. Kadri turned right into the boards, if you watch the replay enough you see that Kadri even embellishes the hit and propels himself somewhat to make it look like a mroe violent hit. Kadri figured he could milk the major and still be OK. he double crossed himself on it. I mean its been his M.O to engage in dirty plays and then try to milk calls whenever he gets tagged. The NHL seemingly gives no attention to the boy cries wolf syndrome, or they love it. I'm thinking the latter.

Wheres your comment like this anytime the Oilers are getting slew footed into the boards or the stick between the legs to send a guy head first into the boards. Its often the harder to see infractions that are the dirtiest of plays.

The Kane hit on Kadri was not entirely different than the Lucic hit on Smith.

You've got to be f***ing kidding me .

 

[Drivesaitl]

Again, the RESULT of the hit doesn't downplay the severity of the action. Change the angle a few degrees and he could blow out his shoulder, break his neck etc. It's a dumb, dumb, dumb play, and Oiler fans trying to drum up excuses to downplay it is kind of embarrassing.

An on ice collision, unintended, is one of the most dangerous plays in hockey which is a dangerous sport, inherently. The hit Kane made happens in the NHL basically every day games get played. it isn't unique, worse than, anything like that. What the Oilers fans get pissed off at is that the DOPS is a farce. That isn't their actual mission at all. Rather than player safety being the leading concern its game and result management while giving some clubs license to maim.

 

[McBigYak]

When did I defend the hit? I'm not a fan of it.

That being said... I'm frustrated. Kadri milked it for all it was worth and then some. And now we see he didn't even really sustain an injury, he's got a broken thumb. If Draisaitl or McDavid sustained the same injury they are still playing.

Then you add the league into the mix; that hit happens all day every day. Do I like it? No. But I can find you 10 examples or more from the past year that no one even looked twice at, one of them in this very playoffs. Even when other teams seem to cross the line, they don't get in trouble for often specious reasoning; "oh he let up, oh the injury was minor, oh imagine what would have happened if he tried to hurt him." Yet somehow none of this garbage applies to the Oilers.

Trouba has concussed 4 guys this playoffs with hits through the head to not even a minor penalty. But that ill advised shove is a suspension? Jensen had to literally crawl to his bench and couldn't remember his own name.

But f*** Kane and the Oilers, Kadri has a thumb booboo.

Have you ever broken your thumb? Honest question. If you had, you would not think Kadri is milking it there. It is horrendously painful.

 

[frag2]

When did I defend the hit? I'm not a fan of it.

That being said... I'm frustrated. Kadri milked it for all it was worth and then some. And now we see he didn't even really sustain an injury, he's got a broken thumb. If Draisaitl or McDavid sustained the same injury they are still playing.

Then you add the league into the mix; that hit happens all day every day. Do I like it? No. But I can find you 10 examples or more from the past year that no one even looked twice at, one of them in this very playoffs. Even when other teams seem to cross the line, they don't get in trouble for often specious reasoning; "oh he let up, oh the injury was minor, oh imagine what would have happened if he tried to hurt him." Yet somehow none of this garbage applies to the Oilers.

Trouba has concussed 4 guys this playoffs with hits through the head to not even a minor penalty. But that ill advised shove is a suspension? Jensen had to literally crawl to his bench and couldn't remember his own name.

But f*** Kane and the Oilers, Kadri has a thumb booboo.

This. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

Have you ever broken your thumb? Honest question. If you had, you would not think Kadri is milking it there. It is horrendously painful.

Kadri has a history of head hunting and a myriad of other dirty shit. What goes around comes around.

 

[CupofOil]

Again, the RESULT of the hit doesn't downplay the severity of the action. Change the angle a few degrees and he could blow out his shoulder, break his neck etc. It's a dumb, dumb, dumb play, and Oiler fans trying to drum up excuses to downplay it is kind of embarrassing.

It is a bit embarrassing, I noted that in the GDT when it happened when people were actually applauding Kane's actions.

It was a dumb, reckless and dangerous play by Kane. I don't care that it's Kadri on the other end of it (even though, yes, there's a bit of karma at play here), that's the type of play that can potentially alter or end the career of a player. It wasn't a vicious push by Kane but it doesn't take much when a player is in that position that close to the boards to really cause damage.

 

[McBigYak]

An on ice collision, unintended, is one of the most dangerous plays in hockey which is a dangerous sport, inherently. The hit Kane made happens in the NHL basically every day games get played. it isn't unique, worse than, anything like that. What the Oilers fans get pissed off at is that the DOPS is a farce. That isn't their actual mission at all. Rather than player safety being the leading concern its game and result management while giving some clubs license to maim.

Enlighten me with some snapshots of how that play happens everyday games are played. I bet you can find some scattered videos throughout the years (Crosby, Hagel, Mcdavid against Ana), but that statement is complete and utter bullshit. It's a horrible, braindead hit.

DOPS is a joke yes. But it's honestly embarrassing to see Oiler fans somehow trying to spin it like it isn't a big deal.

 

[Drivesaitl]

You've got to be f***ing kidding me .

Several people on the board felt Kadri did this and a fair number of players do turn into the boards when they sense such a hit. Pro players realize they can control the fall somewhat, but make it look good. Turning into the boards to get a call on a hit from behind is a tactic that people have called out multiple times. It adds its own danger.

My only surprise in the whole sequence is that Kadri didn't come back immediately on the 5 minute PP. lol at the broadcast milking this as well saying 15 times he's probably in concussion protocol. oh probably seriously injured and maimed.